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Girl decoded : a scientist's quest to reclaim our humanity by bringing emotional intelligence to technology / Rana el Kaliouby, with Carol Colman.

El Kaliouby, Rana, (author.). Colman, Carol, (author.).

Summary:

In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling-to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another. Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim woman in charge in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and male. After earning her PhD at Cambridge, el Kaliouby moved to America to pursue her mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us. To combat our fundamental loss of emotional intelligence online, she cofounded Affectiva, the pioneer in the new field of Emotion AI, allowing our technology to understand humans the way we understand one another.

Record details

ISBN: 9781984824783
ISBN: 1984824783
Physical Description: viii, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Edition: Currency trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Currency, 2021.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : emotion blind -- Growing up Egyptian -- Oil and water -- Uprooted -- What will the neighbors think? -- The spark -- A married woman -- Stranger in a strange land -- A mad scientist talks to a wall -- The challenge -- Learning human -- Mommy brain -- Crazy ideas -- The other Cambridge -- Demo or die -- Spinning out -- My Arab Spring -- Grounded in Cairo -- Woman in charge -- Hacking the hackathon -- Gone quiet -- Secrets of a smile -- A new American family -- Leveling the playing field -- Human-ish -- Alexa, we need to talk -- Robots on wheels -- Human before artificial.